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dispatch
English
Alternative forms
- despatch (UK, Australia)
Etymology
From Spanish despachar or Italian dispacciare, replacing alternate reflex depeach, which is from French dépêcher. The first known use in writing (in the past tense, spelled as dispached) is by Bishop Cuthbert Tunstall in 1517. This would be unusually early for a borrowing from a Romance language other than French, but Tunstall had studied in Italy and was Commissioner to Spain, so this word may have been borrowed through diplomatic circles. The alternative spelling despatch was introduced in Samuel Johnson's dictionary, probably by accident.
Pronunciation
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /d??spæt?/
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /d??spæt?/
- Rhymes: -æt?
Verb
dispatch (third-person singular simple present dispatches, present participle dispatching, simple past and past participle dispatched)
- (transitive) To send (a shipment) with promptness.
- (transitive) To send (a person) away hastily.
- (transitive) To send (an important official message) promptly, by means of a diplomat or military officer.
- (transitive) To send (a journalist) to a place in order to report.
- (transitive) To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.
- (transitive) To rid; to free.
- (transitive) To destroy quickly and efficiently.
- (transitive, computing) To pass on for further processing, especially via a dispatch table (often with to).
- (intransitive, obsolete) To hurry.
- (transitive, obsolete) To deprive.
Synonyms
- destroy
- kill
- make haste
- send
Hyponyms
Related terms
- dispatch table
- happy dispatch
Translations
Noun
dispatch (countable and uncountable, plural dispatches)
- A message sent quickly, as a shipment, a prompt settlement of a business, or an important official message sent by a diplomat, or military officer.
- The act of doing something quickly.
- Synonyms: haste, hurry, rapidity
- 1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
- During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant […]
- A mission by an emergency response service, typically attend to an emergency in the field.
- (computing) The passing on of a message for further processing, especially via a dispatch table.
- (obsolete) A dismissal.
Translations
Derived terms
- dispatcher
- dispatch case
- dispatch table
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missive
English
Etymology
15th Century; from Medieval Latin missivus, from mittere (“to send”).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /?m?s?v/
Noun
missive (plural missives)
- (formal) A written message; a letter, note or memo.
- 2008, Claire Armistead, The Guardian, 25 Oct 2008:
- The Madonna letters, which are interspersed with more personal missives in this curious epistolary memoir, accumulate into a rap about the downsides of celebrity - the problems of ageing, of invaded privacy, of becoming vain and impetuously adopting children from other continents.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 71:
- "Curses throttle thee!" yelled Ahab. "Captain Mayhew, stand by now to receive it"; and taking the fatal missive from Starbuck's hands, he caught it in the slit of the pole, and reached it over towards the boat.
- 2008, Claire Armistead, The Guardian, 25 Oct 2008:
- (in the plural, Scotland, law) Letters sent between two parties in which one makes an offer and the other accepts it.
- (obsolete) One who is sent; a messenger.
- c. 1606: Macbeth by Shakespeare
- Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it came missives from the King, who all hailed me ‘Thane of Cawdor,’ by which title these Weird Sisters saluted me and referred me to the coming on of time with ‘Hail king that shalt be.’
- c. 1606: Macbeth by Shakespeare
Translations
Adjective
missive (not comparable)
- Specially sent; intended or prepared to be sent.
- a letter missive
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ayliffe to this entry?)
- (obsolete) Serving as a missile; intended to be thrown.
- 1700, John Dryden, Cymon And Iphigenia
- The missive weapons fly.
- 1700, John Dryden, Cymon And Iphigenia
Related terms
- See mission for terms etymologically related to send
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “missive”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
French
Pronunciation
Noun
missive f (plural missives)
- missive
Italian
Noun
missive f
- plural of missiva
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